Funded Research Projects: Ongoing
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National Science Foundation: CAREER: Characteristics of Rain-on-Snow Flooding in the Midwest | Role: PI | Total Cost: $673,168 | Period: 2025/07-2030/06
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National Science Foundation: Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Flash Drought Development | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $584,820 | Period: 2024/08-2027/07
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US Department of Agriculture: Hydrological Outcomes of the Conservation Reserve Program in Water-stressed High Plains Watersheds | Role: PI | Total Cost: $1,000,000 | Period: 2023/09-2028/08
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Department of the Air Force: Building a Global Composite Drought Indicator Hot Spot Early Warning and Information System Follow-on Effort (Phase II) | Role: Co-I | Total Cost: $1,599,943 | Period: 2023/06-2026/05
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Co-LEARN: A Midwestern Community of Learning for Empowerment, Climate Adaptation and Resilience for the Next Generation | Role: Co-I (UNL Team) | Total Cost: $767,470 (UNL Part) | Period: 2023/07-2028/06
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: The Impact of Surface Fluxes on Rain-On-Snow Events in the U.S. and Improving Their Representation in Numerical Models | Role: Co-PI (UNL Team) | Total Cost: $334,621 (UNL Part) | Period: 2023/06-2026/05
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Improving hydrological drought monitoring capability of the US Drought Monitor | Role: PI | Total Cost: $766,415 | Period: 2022/08-2026/08
Funded Research Projects: Completed
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Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy: Impacts of conservation practices on the water quality and quantity in the Shell Creek Watershed, Nebraska | Role: PI | Total Cost: $318,300 | Period: 2021/09-2025/04
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Nebraska Department of Transportation: Impacts of Stream Bed Adjustments on Local Bridge Morphology at Bridge Crossings | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $134,860 | Period: 2022/07-2025/05
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UNL Grand Challenges: Community Climate Resilience on the Great Planes | Role: Co-I | Total Cost: $80,000 | Period: 2023/09-2024/08
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Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute: A comprehensive framework to assess flood risk within the context of public health | Role: PI | Total Cost: $52,418 | Period: 2021/07-2024/06
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Building Relationships of Reciprocacy among Researchers and Marginalized Groups for Resilience in the Central Midwest | Role: Co-I (UNL Team) | Total Cost: $14,999 (UNL Part) | Period: 2022/09-2023/06
NU Collaboration Initiative: Estimating Landscape-level Contributions in Ecosystem Goods & Services from the Conservation Reserve Program in Nebraska | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $150,000 | Period: 2022/07-2024/06
NU Collaboration Initiative: Improving Spring Flood Prediction based on Multi-physical and Data-Driven Convergent Modeling | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $150,000 | Period: 2022/07-2024/06
Nebraska Department of Transportation: Updating rainfall zones and intensities in Nebraska for improved design of non-bridge sized drainage structures: Phase I | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $120,000 | Period: 2022/07-2024/05
Department of the Air Force: Building a Global Composite Drought Indicator Hot Spot Early Warning and Information System (Phase 1) | Role: Co-I | Total Cost: $998,218 | Period: 2022/02-2023/02
University of Waterloo: Peak Streamflow Estimation in the Great Lakes/Ottawa River Basin using Physically-based Models | Role: PI | Total Cost: $15,680 | Period: 2022/01-2022/03
Mid-America Transportation Center: Shallow River Ice Flow Impacts on Critical Infrastructure | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $100,740 | Period: 2021/09-2023/06
NU Collaboration Initiative: Formation of the University of Nebraska Flood Resilience Working Group | Role: PI | Total Cost: $7,500 | Period: 2021/09-2023/06
NU Collaboration Initiative: A framework for evaluating the current and future contributions of the Conservation Reserve Program to ecosystem goods and services in the state of Nebraska | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $21,258 | Period: 2021/07-2022/06
Mid-America Transportation Center: A machine learning-based system for predicting peak flowrates of Nebraska streams | Role: PI | Total Cost: $97,079 | Period: 2021/05-2023/06
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Mid-America Transportation Center: Incorporating snow processes in the Iowa Flood Information System (IFIS) and evaluating its applicability for Nebraska | Role: PI | Total Cost: $131,364 | Period: 2020/07-2021/12
UNL Research Council Faculty Seed Grant: Probabilistic Flood Inundation Mapping in Lower Platte River Basin Phase I: Inundation Modeling | Role: PI | Total Cost: $9,995 | Period: 2020/01–2020/12
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Teaching & Training Grants
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National Agricultural Higher Education Project: (OUAT) India-NAHEP undergraduate students and faculty training | Role: Co-PI | Total Cost: $47,000 | Period: 2021/11-2023/03
UNL Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor: Development of the Pop-up Course, Exploring Environmental Research | Role: Co-Instructor | Total Cost: $2,000 | Period: 2020/05-2020/08